Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill said on June 12 that she is investigating pharmacy chain CVS and has sent the company a cease-and-desist notice after it allegedly used customers’ personal information to send text messages opposing a bill.
Murrill said in a statement posted to social media platform X that the messages had been sent by CVS to “large numbers of state employees and their families,” adding that this was “not an appropriate use of personal information obtained through a state contract.”
The proposed legislation that prompted the messages is the now-failed House Bill 358. The bill, if it became law, would have banned companies from owning both pharmacy benefit managers and drug stores in the state….